[1] The team played its home games at Athletic Park, later known as Borchert Field, on Milwaukee's north side.
In order to create a team that could compete immediately in the early National Football League, the men scoured the East Coast college ranks, signing multiple All-Americans in hopes of building a team of all-stars that could rival the Green Bay Packers for state supremacy.
The Badgers played their first home game on October 15, 1922,[4] in which they defeated the Racine Legion 20–0 in front of 6,000 fans at Athletic Park.
[5] However injuries and team disunity caught up with the Badgers, as they finished the season with just two wins, four defeats and three ties, resulting in 11th place in the standings.
As a result, the Cardinals planned two extra games that were scheduled against the Badgers and the Hammond Pros, who were both losing teams in that season.
The high schoolers were reported to be William Thompson, Jack Daniels, Charles Richardson and Jimmy Snyder.
The Englewood players were also forgiven, and two of them, William Thompson and Charles Richardson, earned high school all-star recognition at the end of the season.
Bryan took an aggressive approach to rebuilding the team, even ditching the club's familiar orange sweaters for bright red.
While a 2–2 start gave the team hope, but they dropped the last five games of the season and folded the following summer due to a lack of money.